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Maduro facing protests...
Posted: Monday, May 23, 2016
Maduro facing protests in T&T
Education ministry to move into new home
Bail (Amendment) Act poorly drafted, says Judge
A HIGH COURT judge has held that the section of the Bail (Amendment) Act No 7 of 2015, which gave a magistrate the right to deny a person bail for 120 days if they are charged with an offence and was in possession of a firearm, was badly drafted.
Sunway wants $350M
SUNWAY Construction (Caribbean) Limited – the company which was tied to former Udecott chairman Calder Hart – is suing the State for $350 million in relation to the same controversial project it handled under Hart's tenure.
Wastage and facilitation of corruption
Why has the disastrous state of accounting for the spending of billions of dollars of public funds been allowed to continue, notwithstanding the decades-long calls by successive auditors general for the establishment of quality accounting systems and rigorous monitoring of spending?
PM Rowley: Speak out on child marriage
Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has advised the young people of this nation that if they "see a requirement for change", such as raising the legal age of marriage from 12-years-old (in the case of Muslim girls) to 18-years-old, they must demand as much.
...PM to grads: Don't be afraid of change
PNM women, Spiritual Baptists want law changed
The Women's League of the People's National Movement (PNM) has joined the voices against child marriage and stated this week that existing local laws contradict this country's position as a signatory to the United Nations Convention for the Rights of the Child.
The Child Bride—Dularie's story
As the debate rages on over laws on child marriage, there is scepticism from an elderly woman who was married at the age of nine, before there were even any marriage laws in this country.
Religious bias in sex law
NICOLE Dyer Griffith of the Alliance of Independents (AOI) on Friday called on Government to address a ‘Pandora's Box' of outdated laws, including righting an alleged bias in the laws on the age of consent and marriage. "The AOI considers it as being totally deplorable that certain bodies can turn a blind eye to the sexual exploitation of children, using the cloak of religion," Griffith said.
Man surrenders after chopping uncle to death
Fireman robbed; 2 suspects nabbed after chase
A fire officer attached to the Chaguanas Fire Station was robbed on Saturday. Stefon Roberts, of Branch Street, Enterprise, Chaguanas, was riding his motorcycle along Amow Street when a man jumped in front of him and announced a hold-up.
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